topic Re: %dftest macro invocation issue in SAS Programming

%dftest macro invocation issue

MarkNicholas — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:55:08 GMT

Dear ,

I am trying to invoke DFTEST macro which is one of the inbuilt macro in SAS but get the following error. Please help to resolve further.

WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro DFTEST not resolved.

Regards

Mark

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

Tom — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:26:14 GMT

How do you have the SASAUTOS and MRECALL options set?

Do you have SAS/ETS licensed and installed?

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

MarkNicholas — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:46:58 GMT

Thank you Tom for helping out. My account setup is normal. Others in my line of work can execute %dftest normally, except me. So, I believe the default options and license are taken care already.

I have also included the line options mautosource ; and then tried to execute %dftest and still get same message

WARNING: Apparent invocation of macro DFTEST not resolved.

Could you help in any other way such as to check for the physical existence of the definition of this macro in any sas program that comes inbuilt at the installation.

Thank you.

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:24:48 GMT

Do you share a server with the other users, or do you work with individual SAS installations?

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

jwillis — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:27:57 GMT

If this helps, SAS/ETS(R) 9.2 User's Guide .

"Note that the %DFTEST macro has been superseded by the PROC ARIMA stationarity tests. See Chapter 7, The ARIMA Procedure, for details."

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

MarkNicholas — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:29:11 GMT

Yes Kurt, I am working on shared server - Solaris 9.3

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

Tom — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:30:35 GMT

If you are running SAS on Windows then the macro should be under the ets folder.

....\SASFoundation\9.4\ets\sasmacro\dftest.sas

On Unix they are usually all put into the single sasautos folder.

.../SASFoundation/9.4/sasautos/dftest.sas

This macro is from 1987. Why not just use DF test build into AUTOREG?

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/etsug/63348/HTML/default/viewer.htm#etsug_autoreg_sect034.htm

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

MarkNicholas — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:32:52 GMT

Hi jwillis, I get the statement, however I am on a shared server with other users, I want to open a new session and execute the inbuilt macro but cannot execute any of them.

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:54:54 GMT

Things I would look at

- same workspace server?

- individual config/autoexec files?

- code executed automatically in/from EG?

- SAS/CONNECT involved?

Re: %dftest macro invocation issue

MarkNicholas — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:07:45 GMT

Thank you very much Tom, Kurt, jwillis for your help.

My colleagues were out of office now and I couldnt catch up with them for the correct port number to select at login ; so had to check manually on this.

Yes, there were two versions of SAS (9.2 , 9.3 ) on the same server ; the sasautos folder of 9.3 was missing with the programs dftest and dfpvalue. My colleagues were using 9.2

Anyways, I had a chance to learn something new today.

Have a nice day ahead !!

- Mark